For Businesses and Funders

Get your business involved

Trees for Cities has created over 30 Edible Playgrounds across the UK in partnership with companies and with the support of funders. We’re keen to create more – and we can achieve this through a mutually beneficial partnership with you.

HELP GIVE CHILDREN A HEALTHIER FUTURE

Public Health England estimates that 28% of children between two and fifteen years old are obese. Edible Playgrounds have a direct impact on children’s health, their attitude towards food and establishing positive eating habits. They also provide educational opportunities through outdoor teaching and access to nature in inner city areas.

Edible Playgrounds will demonstrate to your clients, customers and stakeholders your commitment to the lives, health and education of children and local communities.

Your employees will also get the opportunity to volunteer and get involved ‘on the ground’ – fostering teamwork and supporting engagement and skills development.

How we work together

We’ll forge a positive partnership with your organisation by working closely with you and understanding your objectives, expectations and resources.

We can provide a range of supporter packages to suit your objectives and budget. For example, you can support an Edible Playground at a school or the programme as a whole.

Our Edible Playgrounds packages offer you the following:

Employee engagement opportunities

Support on issues of concern to many UK households such as healthy eating, the prevention of childhood obesity and engaging children in their education

Exposure through our considerable social network

Lots of emotive and positive content for you to share with your customers and other stakeholders

A demonstrable partnership with a successful programme and a well established charity

Test

Edible Playgrounds transform areas in school grounds into a vibrant outdoor spaces that excite and teach children about growing and eating healthy food. By instilling healthy eating habits at an early age, they help tackle obesity, food poverty and lack of access to nature head on, and provide a platform for fun and engaging lessons that support the school curriculum.

We have already created over 25 Edible Playgrounds and we’re keen to create more – but we need your help to do so. By supporting Edible Playgrounds, you have the opportunity to make a difference to local schoolchildren; helping them to live happier, healthier lives.